Michael Brunton-Spall is a technical architect working for the Government Digital Service, a service in the Cabinet Office of the UK Government.
He works as a consulting architect with a variety of government departments, helping them understand and implement agile, DevOps, service operation and modern web architectures.
Previously Michael was a developer, developer advocate and senior engineer for the Guardian newspaper. He worked at the Guardian for six years, helping to build and scale the website, plan and build their API offerings.

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Talk: Operating microservices

Microservices is the new cool architecture, and developers and architects are all jumping on the bandwagon, often without thinking about how they are going to operate the microservice.

Microservices architecture changes your software from a monolithic complicated system to a complex distributed system, and there are ways the operations team will have to change how they operate the system, and the way they interact with the development teams.

We’ll cover how DevOps-like patterns can be applied on microservices to give the development teams more responsibility for their choices, and how monitoring, logging, auditing, security and other concerns can be managed in a distributed system.